I’m glad that I have a more stable personal life than she did, because it caused her so much pain. Then I also think I don’t envy her because, you know, the title In Extremis, is about how she lived her own life in extremis, as well as the people she reported on. And I’m very envious of her for being able to be that brave and be so determined. I always feel outclassed by her in the sense that she was much braver than I am. Marie took a lot more risks than I did and if one puts it crudely that’s why I’m alive and she isn’t. Well, it made me think that it was a very good thing that I destroyed my teenage diaries. Has writing the book made you rethink your own ideas about war reporting and being a reporter? But then there were other moments: I would read stuff in her diary from later on and I’d find myself wanting to ring her and say: “Marie, what really happened?” And then I’d remember: “Oh gosh, I can’t ring her.” The mother and the father no like.” In that moment I thought, I know the woman that girl became. For example, there was a great bit in the diary in which as a 13-year-old girl she writes about having to go to Mass with her family: “To church.
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